Muslims: Settlement will prevent ‘illegal’ NYPD surveillance

New York City has reached a settlement giving Muslims a say in police training and policies, and the city agreed to pay mosques and businesses who said they were illegally targeted for surveillance because of their religion, Muslim groups said Thursday.

The groups said they’ve been targeted for years following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack, and they hope this settlement sends a message to the Trump administration to be careful about its own plans, such as the president’s travel ban.

The Muslim groups said roughly 20 mosques, two Muslim student organizations in New Jersey, 14 restaurants, two grade schools and 11 retail stores faced surveillance. Visitors and customers were photographed and undercover officers and informants infiltrated some of the organizations during a decade-long period.

The organizations sued, saying they were being singled out purely because of their religion. A federal district court ruled against them in 2014 but the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stepped in a year later and said their lawsuit could proceed, comparing the surveillance to targeting of the Japanese during World War II.

That led to Thursday’s settlement, in which the New York Police Department agreed not to engage in surveillance on the basis of religion or ethnicity, to meet with the plaintiffs to talk about their concerns, and to pay damages to mosques and businesses that suffered from the surveillance.

“The message to police departments from coast to coast is loud and clear: you cannot treat someone as a suspect based on their faith,” said Farhana Khera, executive director of Muslim Advocates, a legal advocacy group that represented the plaintiffs.

The city, while acknowledging the settlement, said it wasn’t admitting to any misconduct or violations of law.

“The resolution of this case affirms and enhances the NYPD’s commitment to conducting effective investigations to prevent crime and terrorism,” said James P. O’Neill, the police commissioner.

The city will pay $47,500 to businesses and mosques who suffered financially from the surveillance, as well as $25,000 to the individual plaintiffs. The city will also pay $950,000 in fees to the lawyers for the Muslim plaintiffs.

Under the agreement, the plaintiffs’ lawyers will also be able to review and make recommendations on policy policy and training guidelines surrounding religious and First Amendment activities.

Baher Azmy, the legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights which represented the plaintiffs, said the settlement should be a warning to President Trump.

“We are seeing a range of worrisome rhetoric from the White House that sort of doubles down on what animated this policy, which is a presumption that Muslims are suspicious,” he said.

“It is certainly our belief that the precedent set by the 3rd Circuit, we are hopeful, will be a reminder to other courts who are reviewing this administration’s conduct,” said Ms. Khera.

February being “Black History Month”, How about passing a law designating March “Stop Blaming White American People” month followed by April as “Muslim Appreciation Month” beginning on April Fools Day.

It’s an act of deliberate treason that is supposed to facilitate displacement of American protestants. You may bet a horse and carriage that these weren’t Christians who conspired to impose that “settlement”.

Chicago wants to let “Black Lives Matter” control police policies,,,,,Now New York wants the Muslims to take over for one more step closer to Sharia law, where Christian based concerned government surveillance gets morphed by the evil doers into an unconcerned 1938 National Socialist Kristallnacht “NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS” where modern Christian Americans now substitute for German Jews to become food for the secular socialist man-gods. 267 Jewish synagogues and 7500 Jewish businesses were destroyed in one night. Just where are the murdered American Muslims, destroyed Mosques in need of reparations? The German National socialist of those times also shouted claims of victimhood to justify the violence. Just what is it about people who are raised to believe in their victimhood, that makes people visit the violence and control upon others, that they in their own hearts know is more worthy to be visited upon THEY the offensive. What is it about frightened politicians that they so readily settle in fear that which they are too timid to address, with other people’s money and life’s blood of course, the sure sign dead giveaway that you are dealing with a weak self-hating secular liberal.

A man walking down a street at night came upon a man crawling on his hands and knees obviously looking for something under a street light. He offered to help look, after being told of a lost wallet. After a few minutes, figuring that they should have quickly found the missing wallet, he said “So exactly where were you standing when you dropped your wallet?” The first man replied, pointing, “Over there, about fifty feet down that dark alley.” “So why look here and not there?” “Because it is lit here and so easier to look.”

So police will have to ignore religion, ethnic background, race and what next? Gender, no doubt. I can hear a future APB : “The First National Bank on Main Street was robbed. The perp is a person, about five and a half feet tall, wearing a blue shirt.” No mention of skin color, race, gender, or any of a dozen possible identifying characteristics that might assist in picking out the perp from the hundreds of people out on the street at the same moment. I heard of some young Black men who robbed a house in a white neighborhood and were arrested shortly afterward by a police officer who was too close for them to get away. Their lawyer wanted all evidence found in their car, such as the loot from the house, tossed out by the judge for them being stopped illegally, since the description of them included their race/skin color.

OMG – Really? This is why Democrat run cities are broke! I don’t believe in the ideology of the Muslim “faith”.
But now the various groups can sue, make lots of money, and then tell police what to do? We have to replace the Dems everywhere!!

From the article above: “Baher Azmy, the legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights which represented the plaintiffs, said the settlement should be a warning to President Trump.” Hey Baher, you can kiss my you know what, you clown terrorist enabler. Secondly, the mayor of New York can go to you know where! Communist DiBlasio!

“New York City has reached a settlement giving Muslims a say in police training and policies, and the city agreed to pay mosques and businesses who said they were illegally targeted for surveillance because of their religion…” What could possibly be wrong with this scenario. Afterall, Islam is the Religion of Peace, right…sure. No one surveiled had anything at all to do with Muslim Supremacy in any way, shape or form. Until the next attack…

So who is in charge in N.Y.? It sure isn’t the Mayor. Have the politicians lost what little mind they have? Apparently so. Liberals and liberal politicians will give our country away, piece by piece. I be Cuomo is ok with this too.

This nonsense must stop. But then again, it may not…as we get turned inside out prior to Revelation. When Jesus returns, all Muslims will be cast into the lake of fire with all other false doctrines, unrepentant sinners, those who said NO to Jesus. We can stand in opposition to insanity, pray without ceasing, but that day is coming.

Utterly stupid fools for falling for the Muslims lies! If they knew history, they would be rounding up every single Muslim and sending back to the slaughterhouses they came from. After they finish deporting the Muslims, every official who agreed to such suicidal terms must be indicted for treason.
Can anyone say “Muslim privilege?”

Moslems repeatedly bombed the World Trade Center until they were finally ‘successful’ in bringing it down. Moslems have murdered thousands worldwide (including their own people) with perpetual acts of terrorism and war and beheadings and ‘honor killings.’

Thus, if a crime has been committed, it is very possible that a Moslem is guilty.

Al Capone was born too early. Using the same (lack of) logic used by New York, targeting of organized crime groups would, today, be called “discrimination” against people most likely to have committed a crime.

This is good news for the Islamists in the NYC area because they will now be able to continue implementing their agenda of Islamic domination without interference by the NYC Police Department. Islamists are extremely effective at utilizing our judiciary to obtain special rights that are denied to other groups. This is just another case of political-correctness taking priority over national security.